Emailed Awesome

• First, let me just say how much I do NOT, in fact, enjoy Spring Forward.

• Second, I am over at Heart of the Matter today giving away a 6 dvd Go Science set. Library and Ed has also generously offered a 20% coupon code for several other science products.

• We had an absolutely terrific weekend. We drove up to Tacoma, which is about an hour and a half from where we are currently staying. Tacoma does not have the reputation of being Cool and Hip like Seattle, but I was pleasantly surprised when we got there. It has a really vibrant downtown (vibrant! what am I, a travel brochure?), with lots of museums and restaurants. I have been dying to go to the Museum of Glass, so I dragged everyone up there with me.

It was AMAZING. And to my surprise, Big was really into it. The MOG has a live Hot Shop, where every day you can go watch them create amazing things out of glass.

I guess I shouldn’t have been too surprised that he liked it – the Hot Shop has ovens and blowtorches and molten glass and all kinds of dangerous equipment that appeals to little boys.

It was great. I highly recommend if you find yourself in Tacoma, Washington. In truth, the indoor collections were a bit…Meh, but the Hot Shop definitely made it worth the price of admission.

(did I say amazing enough in that description? sadly I am too lazy to think of synonyms. judge me as you wish.)

• On Sunday, we spent a relatively relaxing day at home (“relaxing day at home” is code for “no one took a shower” in case that’s not how you do it), and were lucky enough to see a SWARM, practically, of seals fishing in the bay, and a starfish, and a Bald Eagle! A Bald Eagle! You don’t see those in Colorado, and I always love catching a glimpse of one. They are a very majestic looking bird. The Bald Eagle looks like he kicks some serious ass.

See the little white dots at the end of his arms? Those are his eyespots.